2022-23

Niehoff Center for Film and Media Studies
Research and Creative Fellowships for Faculty
University of Cincinnati

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship for Excellence (Declined)
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

2021-22

Andrew W. Mellon Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative
University of Pennsylvania

Wolf Humanities Center Graduate Fellowship
Mellon Research Seminar on Migration
University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Declined)
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

2020-21

Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative
Graduate Research Grant
University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Research Fellowship
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

2016-21

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

Organizer. “Borders, Utopias, and the Mexican Literary Imagination,” Cincinnati Conference on Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, April 7-9, 2022.

“On the Obsidian Mound: Utopistics, the End of the World, and the Mexican Novel.” Cincinnati Conference on Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, April 7-9.

“Orientation.” Seminar “Values for Theory.” American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL, March 16-19.

Organizer. “Peripheral Modernisms: In Theory.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 5-8. Roundtable.

“An Aesthetics of Dependency: The Mexican Novel and the Question of Peripheral Modernism.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 5-8.

Organizer. “Utopia, Dystopia, and Latin American Futurity.” Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, October 6-8.

“Residual Spaces, Peripheral Futurity, and the Mexican Novel.” Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, October 6-8.

Co-Organizer. “Marxist Dependency Theory: Dialectics of Dependency.” Marxist Literary Group-Institute on Culture and Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 13-17.

Co-organizer. “Poéticas medioambientales/Environmental Poetics: Art and Literature in the Age of Extinction.” Canadian Association of Hispanists, Virtual Congress, June 2-5.

“On the Grounds of Ecological Devastation: The Desert as Non-Orientable Space.” Canadian Association of Hispanists, Virtual Congress, June 2-5.

Chair and Co-organizer. “Imaginarios de la crisis ambiental en la literatura mexicana.” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, May 5-8, 2022.

“Intimate Entrapments: The 1982 Debt Crisis and Domestic Life in Mexican Literature.” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, May 5-8.

“‘En el desierto es difícil esconder barbaridades:’ Daniel Sada and the Notation of Absence.” Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, April 28-30.

Organizer. “Literary Geographies of Care: Intimate Spaces and Reproductive Labor across the Americas.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, March 10-13.

“Forms of Dwelling: Intimate Space in María Luisa Mendoza’s El perro de la escribana.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, March 10-13.

Co-organizer. “Imaginaries of Migration: Divergent Trajectories & Transnational Temporalities.” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, January 6-9.

“Formal Intervals, Spatial Openings: the Mexico-U.S. Border in the Time of Global Capital.” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, January 6-9.

Organizer. “Literary Ecologies: Territories, Ecosystems, and the Production of Space.” Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Austin, TX, October 14-16.

“Literary Countertopographies: On Migration Paths and the Political Ecology of Greater Mexico.” Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Austin, TX, October 14-16.

“Form, Space, and the Modernist Novel: Reflections from the Periphery.” Marxist Literary Group-Institute on Culture and Society, Virtual Seminars, June 18-19 & 25-26.

Co-organizer. “Sonidos de América Latina: tecnologías, espacios, materialidad.” Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Congress, May 26-29.

“Norte, Desierto, Frontera: Spatial Openings in the Mexican Novel of the NAFTA era.” Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Congress, May 26-29.

“A Dialectics of Enclosure and Openness, or the Spatial Logic of Peripheral Modernization.” The Spatial Imagination in the Humanities, Virtual Conference, May 20-21.

“The Transitional Novel and the Antinomies of Mexico’s Peripheral Modernization.” American Comparative Literature Association, Virtual Conference, April 8-11.

Organizer. “Shifting Landscapes: Maps, Borders, and Nature in Latin American Literature.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Virtual Convention, March 11-14.

“Capitalist Thresholds: Spatial Transitions in Carlos Fuentes’ The Death of Artemio Cruz,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Virtual Convention, March 11-14.

Organizer. “Form and Space in Latin American Literature.” Modern Language Association, Virtual Convention, January 7-10.

“From La tierra pródiga to Las tierras arrasadas: Writing Developmentalism and State Power in Mexico,” Modern Language Association, Virtual Convention, January 7-10.

“Figuring Space: On the Spatial Composition of the Mexican Novel,” Modern Language Association, Virtual Convention, January 7-10.

Chair and Co-organizer. “Geografía material y simbólica en la novela mexicana contemporánea.” Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Congress, May 13-16.

“Geografías de la violencia: en torno a la producción del espacio en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea,” Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Congress, May 13-16.

Chair and Organizer. “Espacios de violencia: geografías de la literatura mexicana contemporánea.” Conference of Contemporary Mexican Literature, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, March 5-7.

“Bañarse dos veces en la misma violencia: corrientes y espacios de acumulación en Temporada de huracanes de Fernanda Melchor,” Conference of Contemporary Mexican Literature, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, March 5-7.

“Accumulation Unshackled: Capital Reproduction, Circulation of Violence, and Narrative Form,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 9-12.

“Open-Ended Neoliberalism: Mexico before the Rise of the Latin American Right,” Modern Language Association, Seattle, WA, January 9-12.